Educational quotes and sayings

"Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life... You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them... Stick to Facts, sir!" - Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

Charles Dickens was not the only novelist who produced educational quotes: "There is a road to the heart and it doesn"t go through the intellect." - G K Chesterton.

"If we always do what we"ve always done, we will get what we"ve always got." - Adam Urbanski..

"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." -  W B Yeats.

The ancient masters have produced many educational quotes to inspire today's teachers: "If your plan is for one year, plant rice; If your plan is for ten years, plant trees; If your plan is for a hundred years,
Educate children." - Confucius.

But modern radical thinkers have also produced great educational quotes: "We have come to realise that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school." - Ivan Illich..

"Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life that the quality of life depends upon knowing that secret that secrets can only be known in orderly successions and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags." - Ivan Illich..

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok..

"Reading is to the mind as exercise is to the body." - Sir Richard Steele.

"Some people would rather die than think." - Bertrand Russell.

"Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jnr.

"One can never consent to creep when one feels the compulsion to soar." -  Helen Keller.

"The human mind treats a new idea the way a body treats a strange problem it rejects it." - Sir Peter Medawar.

"I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas." - Agatha Christie.

'Some people see things as they are and ask 'why'? I see things as they have never been and ask 'why not'?' - George Bernard Shaw. 

"Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune." - Jim Rohn 

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it." - Laurence Sterne